A new prophetic warning has been given, saying that the world is entering a season of “food wars,” a time when famine pressures and supply disruptions will test both the Church and the nations.
In a recent broadcast, Katie Souza pointed to Judges 6 and 7 as a biblical pattern she believes is resurfacing in the modern era. She framed the coming challenge not as a call to panic, but as a strategic summons to prepare spiritually and practically.
“There are demonic forces that are coming to bring famine, to try to take us out,” she said. “He doesn’t just want people to take care of their own families, but he wants you to think big and be able to feed multitudes.”
A Judges Pattern She Says Is Repeating
Souza anchored her warning in Judges 6, when Midianites and Amalekites repeatedly invaded Israel’s land and destroyed its crops.
Scripture says the invaders would “encamp against them and destroy the crops as far as Gaza and leave no nourishment for Israel.” The result was national impoverishment until the people cried out to the Lord.
Souza argues that the pattern of crop destruction and food suppression is not merely historical.
“Don’t even think that this isn’t going to replay itself,” she said. “Demonic powers are at work and they’re at work through human agents that are causing this to be replayed.”
She contends that the food insecurity seen in parts of the modern world reflects the early stages of a broader spiritual conflict expressed through food systems.
Joseph Strategy: Preserving a Remnant
Souza also invoked the story of Joseph in Genesis, describing what she calls a “Joseph time,” a window of preparation before a more severe famine cycle.
She said the Lord began speaking to her in 2016 about “the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine.” While she acknowledged uncertainty about the precise timing, she said she later heard 2030 identified as a potential marker of intensified global scarcity.
Whether or not that timeline materializes, her emphasis remains consistent: preparation must begin during seasons of relative abundance.
“If we don’t start preparing now during these years of plenty, we are going to see many people lose their life through starvation, through death,” she said. “We must be taking these prophetic warnings to heart and going into the mode of storing and preparing so the remnant can be saved in the earth.”
Like Joseph, she argues, believers are being called not merely to survive, but to preserve.
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Natural Preparation: Practical Steps for Provision
Souza devoted significant time to practical measures. She urged viewers to begin growing food, even in small spaces, and to consider long-term storage strategies.
“Start growing your own food,” she said, encouraging the use of indoor grow systems for those in apartments.
She also recommended canning, storing grain such as einkorn wheat berries and investing in tools that extend food shelf life. Freeze-dried food, she said, can serve as a long-term buffer during disruption.
In addition, she suggested cooperative models in which families pool resources to purchase land and raise livestock together. In her view, isolation increases vulnerability during systemic shocks.
“God has given us a window and we must take advantage of this window,” she said.
Altars Before Armies: The Spiritual Strategy
While the natural preparations are important, Souza emphasized that Gideon’s first act in Judges 6 was not military.
After encountering the angel of the Lord, Gideon “built an altar to the Lord.” Then he tore down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah pole.
Souza argues this order is critical.
“The first thing you need to do is make sure in this hour you keep up the altar of the Lord,” she said. “It’s the only way you’re going to win this food war.”
She pointed to 1 Kings 17 and 18, where famine struck Israel during the idolatrous reign of Ahab and Jezebel. In her reading of Scripture, famine and idolatry often appear together.
“Famines are connected to idolatry throughout the Bible,” she said.
Souza broadened the definition of idolatry beyond carved images. Food itself, she warned, can become an idol when used as comfort or emotional refuge. She also referenced money, possessions and social media as modern forms of misplaced devotion.
“You can’t have anything in you that’s in common with these demonic gods and goddesses that are the power source behind the food wars,” she said.
The Barley Bread That Flips the Camp
In Judges 7, Gideon overhears a dream in the enemy camp about a loaf of barley bread rolling into a Midianite tent and overturning it. The enemy soldier interprets the dream as a sign that God has given Gideon victory.
Souza sees deep symbolism in that image.
“During a food war, whoever has the food is going to flip the tables and is going to turn the enemy’s strategies upside down,” she said.
She described provision itself as a weapon in the hands of the faithful.
“There is an anointing present in this hour where your sword is barley bread,” she said. “Your sword is food.”
In her view, those who dismantle idolatry and prepare wisely will find that provision becomes the very means by which hostile strategies collapse.
Think Bigger Than Survival
Souza closed her teaching with a challenge. The call, she said, is not merely to stock shelves but to step into a larger assignment.
“Are you one of those people?” she asked, referring to Joseph’s mandate to preserve a remnant. “Because God is releasing money, finances, land, opportunities, favor for people that are going to think big like Joseph.”
Whether one interprets current events as prophetic fulfillment or not, her message is clear: preparation must happen in both realms.
In Judges, a small company of 300 defeated a vast multitude after first tearing down altars and building one to the Lord. Souza believes the same pattern will define those who endure what she calls the coming food wars.
Preparation, she insists, begins now.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
